[PD] vline~ helpfile

[Miller Puckette]

Excellent suggestion, thanks.

Miller

On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 11:14:51AM +0200, hans w. koch wrote:
> thanks miller and school shoes,
> 
> my problem was grasping the „initial delay“ concept: its not adding one after the other but always refering to timepoint 0.
> (my long years of working with max/msp hit me once again. in max/msp´s line~ times are cumulatively added, one after another.)
> 
> the flossmanual page set me straight on this, but may i suggest a slight change in the vline~-helpfile:
> changing the complex messagebox to: 1 1000, 0 0 2000, 1 1000 3000
> (instead of 1 1000, 0 0 1000, 1 1000 1000)
> would -imho- make the concept of initial delay more easy to grasp.
> 
> now finally off to ramping to my hearts content...
> 
> hans
> 
> > Am 24.07.2016 um 02:58 schrieb school shoes <schoolshoes at outlook.com>:
> > 
> > Hi 
> > I have also been a little confused by this in the past but found the explanation on the floss page helpful : 
> > 
> > http://en.flossmanuals.net/pure-data/audio-tutorials/envelope-generator/
> > 
> > I also only seem to get one ramp if I click the [1 1000 0, 0 0 1000, 1 1000 1000( message in the help file 
> > 
> > but works if I  add “ 0 0 , “ to the start of the message
> > 
> > s s
> > 
> > From: Pd-list <pd-list-bounces at lists.iem.at> on behalf of hans w. koch <hansw.koch at gmail.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, 24 July 2016 9:53:19 AM
> > To: pd-list at lists.iem.at
> > Subject: [PD] vline~ helpfile
> >  
> > hello,
> > 
> > maybe i am doing something stupid, but i don´t get the vline~ synthax:
> > the helpfile states: "Any number of future ramps may be scheduled and vline~ will remember them and execute them in order. 
> > They must be specified in increasing order of initial delay however, since a segment cancels all planned segments at any future time.“
> > 
> > then there is an example with a message box containing: 1 1000, 0 0 1000, 1 1000 1000
> > but it doesn´t do more than ramp from 0-1 in a little more than a second.
> > isn´t it supposed to ramp up then down to 0 in another second and then up again?
> > 
> > (using pd47-1-64 bits on osx 11.6. btw)
> > 
> > thanks for any pointers
> > 
> > hans
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